Missed on the french accent assumption. Justin has no french accent when speaking English - probably due to his BC roots, being that his mother is from North Vancouver. He does have the tiniest bit of lisp, however.

You can kinda tell when Google is the research standard for such bits.

New government offers new hope :) So many of my friends are talking about how much more hopeful they feel with the new government.
For the first time we were able to witness the swearing in of the new PM, it's always been held behind closed doors, but this time there were cameras so it was broadcast on the news and on big screen TVs outside Rideau Hall (Where the Governor General lives). It was amazing to have that transparency.
The new cabinet was announced and it is a 50/50 split of men and women. The people in cabinet actually make sense. The minister of Sports and Disabilities is a Paraolympian, the minister of science is a scientist. The minister of health is a doctor... YEAH!!! Hopefully our country is back on the right track.

Now to deal with the provincial government and their arrogance about documents and freedom of information.

Aside from gender diversity, there's also racial and religious diversity in the new cabinet. At least two were born outside of Canada, at least two are Sikh, one is Muslim, another two are atheist, etc.
I'm much more optimistic about this government than the last one, even if it wasn't the government make-up I would have preferred.

Lynx - to get around the freedom of Information legislation The BC Gov't triple deletes all emails before the back-up can archive them and uses post-it notes to communicate or just communicates orally. Then when someone makes a request thru Freedom of information they can honestly say "there are no records" as they have all been deleted.

I do believe that heads will roll. One instance of no records being found deals with the firing of multiple health care workers. The public was told that there was an RCMP investigation into the activities these employees were engaged in. Turns out there was no RCMP investigation, one person took his life over the firing. Now there's no records at all about what lead up to the firing etc. Also turns out that there was a pharmaceutical company that was giving big donations to the provincial Liberal party and there's speculation that their donations were involved in the firing of the employees. The employees may have been recommending to Pharmacare not to cover the drugs manufactured by the pharmaceutical company. But since all the records have been deleted how will we ever know?

Not sure if this is OK place for this, and I'm on my way to sleep but did want to post this. At Bank of America they are donating a bunch of money to Alberta United Way and Canadian Red Cross. They will also match whatever any person donates through them.

It seems ok but I'm not very good with these things so maybe people just want to check it out to make sure they aren't using too much money to get the money to the people who need it. Doesn't seem like it, but I wouldn’t really know how to make sure.